Comment by olavgg
8 months ago
How many of the Apache Kafka issues are adressed by switching to Apache Pulsar?
I skipped learning Kafka, and jumped right into Pulsar. It works great for our use case. No complaints. But I wonder why so few use it?
8 months ago
How many of the Apache Kafka issues are adressed by switching to Apache Pulsar?
I skipped learning Kafka, and jumped right into Pulsar. It works great for our use case. No complaints. But I wonder why so few use it?
I've been down this path, and if my experience is more common, then it really boils down to the classic "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM", and here IBM -> Confluent.
StreamNative seems like an excellent team, and I hope they succeed. But as another comment has written, something (puslar) being better (than kafka) has to either be adopted from the start, or be a big enough improvement to change— and as difficult and feature-poor that Kafka is, it still gets the job done.
I can rant longer about this topic but Pulsar _should_ be more popular, but unfortunately Confluent has dominated here and rent-seeking this field into the ground.
There’s inherently a lot of path-dependent network effects in open source software.
Just because something is 10-30% better in certain cases almost never warrants its adoption, if on the other side you get much less human expertise, documentation/resources and battle tested testimonies.
This, imo, is the story of most Kafka competitors
Some, but then Pulsar brings its own issues.